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Presentation by Fisher Middle School Music Program
Dec. 12, 2017
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Dec. 15, 2017 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Rotary Club of Los Gatos purchased every seat available in the Los Gatos Theatre Dec. 15, 2017 at 6pm for opening weekend showing of the movie Star Wars the Last Jedi. The club sold out (214 seats) in approximately 2.5 weeks. All proceeds for this event will benefit the Ronald McDonald House Standford. Six movie seats will be given away to a select family staying at the Ronald McDonald House. All participants or guests are invited to join us starting at 4pm for happy hour at Gardino’s Restaurant for some fellowship before the movie starts. |
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Alesi: The Life, Death, and Discovery of an Ancester
Dec. 19, 2017
The recent discovery of a 13 million-year-old fossil infant ape skull has offered a rare glimpse of what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The fossil, nick- named “Alesi,” belongs to a newly named species called Nyanzapithecus alesi. Alesi was discovered in a place called Napudet in Turkana, Kenya, by John Ekusi, a member of Dr. Isaiah Nengo’s research team. Alesi was scanned with high powered x-rays at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, revealing the skull’s internal structures in stunning detail. In this talk, Dr. Nengo will share the story of finding this rare fossil and discuss the secrets that cutting-edge technology has uncovered about the life of this ancient infant. Dr. Isaiah Nengo was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an associate director and research professor at the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University. He holds a BS in zoology and botany from the University of Nairobi and a PhD in biological anthropology from Harvard University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the National Museums of Kenya and the University of Nairobi in 2012/13. Dr. Nengo’s research focuses on the search for the ancestors of apes and humans in Africa. He is the recipient of five Leakey Foundation Research Grants.
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Club Financial Update
Jan. 02, 2018
Happy new year to all members at the start of 2018.
This meeting will be a club assembly with no guest speaker. President Suzanne will update the membership on recent changes in the club's handling of philanthropic issues. Member Marty Fishman will be presenting an update on his Seeing Again Guatemala project. |
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Overcome the Wealth Gap
Jan. 09, 2018
Overcome the Wealth Gap: Best Kept Secrets to Financial Freedom.
Hilary Hendershott (HilaryHendershott.com) is the founder of Hilary Hendershott Wealth Management, a leading financial advisory firm, where her mission is to motivate people and their loved ones to be financially empowered.
Hilary hosts Profit Boss Radio, a weekly podcast where Hilary and her guests offer inspiration and actionable advice to support individuals in their financial journey. She’s also a TEDx speaker, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal, NBC, ABC, FOX, DailyWorth, Forbes and Investopedia. In 2014, Hilary was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. With more than 30 television appearances, she’s considered the go-to personal finance expert in Silicon Valley for NBC, where they have nicknamed her "The Investor's Voice of Reason." Hilary has an MBA from Santa Clara University, and is a Certified Financial Planner. |
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Memory Fun 101 - Memory Training for Everyone
Jan. 16, 2018
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Opera San Jose
Jan. 23, 2018
Aaron Nicholson is Director of Marketing & Development, Opera San Jose. Aaron's presentation to us will include some history of the Opera San Jose Company and it's impact on the community. Also, the economic impact of the Arts on San Jose and the South Bay Area will be discussed. Aaron has addressed numerous Rotary clubs on this and similar opera-related topics. The session may include a demonstration of opera singing. Information will be provided on the current and upcoming Opera seasons.
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Jan. 27, 2018 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Rotary Club of Los Gatos 17th annual CrabFest & Auction
SOLD OUT Date: Saturday, January 27th, 2018
Time: 5:30pm (Dinner served at 6pm)
Location: 13601 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070
Benefits:
Food Served:
Live and silent auctions are a big hit with prizes ranging from winter vacations in Tahoe to sunny Mexican cruises, and many other vacation homes in Denver and Switzerland, or your own personal chef for a dinner party, to fine dinning in local restaurants.
Don't miss it - good food, good company, and a good cause.
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Monterey Bay National Maritime Sanctuary
Jan. 30, 2018
Amity Wood is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
In this role, Amity guides the sanctuary’s education team in the implementation of strategic and annual planning for education programs, including overseeing the development, dissemination and evaluation of education and outreach activities, products, signage, and exhibits for visitor centers that promote stewardship and protection of sanctuary resources. Amity holds over 20 years’ experience in the development and delivery of science education and teacher training programs across a wide spectrum of organizations. Prior to working with MBNMS, Amity served for ten years as the Director of Camp SEA Lab, a youth marine science program at Cal State University Monterey Bay. In addition, Amity worked to implement education programs at USC Wrigley Marine Science Center, Catalina Island Marine Institute, and Farallones Marine Sanctuary, building ocean knowledge and stewardship for future generations. Amity graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology, and earned a Master of Arts in Education from University of San Francisco. When not educating the public about ocean conservation, Amity enjoys spending time kayaking, surfing, and SCUBA diving in sanctuary waters. |
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Annual Speech Contest
Feb. 06, 2018
Rotary District 7610 Speech Theme:
Contestants, who must be in grades 9 - 12, will speak on the Rotary theme: Rotary Making a Difference. Each Club should hold a contest and select their winners. Club first place winners advance to the area contest held by Assistant Governors. Each first place winner in the Area contests will advance to compete in the District Final Contest. First, second and third place winners of the District Finals will receive cash awards: $1000 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third. The District Speech Contest winner must be available to deliver their winning speech at the District Conference on Saturday, April 28, 2018. Assistant Governors should hold area contests with the winners from clubs in their area, and report to the District Youth Contest Chair the winner for their area no later than March 30, 2018. Finals for the District 7610 Speech Contest will be Saturday, April 7, 2018. Location to be announced, but it will be in Fredericksburg area.
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The Newspaper Business
Feb. 13, 2018
Barbara Marshman has been editor of The Mercury News Editorial Pages since 2008, having joined the paper 20 years earlier. She grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, graduated from West Chester State University and worked for small daily papers in the Philadelphia area until 1987, when she won a John S. Knight Fellowship to Stanford University. She never went back. |
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The Health Trust: Destination Homes
Feb. 20, 2018
Chad Bojorquez is Director of Employment Strategies for The Health Trust's Destination Homes program. He is a mission-driven change agent dedicated to ending homelessness. As a volunteer he was awarded the Silver Bowl Award from the Junior League of San Jose, the Community Quarterback Award from the San Francisco 49ers, and Bank of America’s Local Hero Award in 2011. As a case manager at InnVision he crafted his approach while helping women and families toward self-sufficiency through Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing. In his next role, Chad played a critical role in the growth at Downtown Streets Team in terms of size, scope, impact, and geography. Over 5 years, he helped craft a whatever-it-takes approach to case management and employment services, co-founded a social enterprise business as a living-wage job creation platform, and launched an East Bay branch of the organization. The Golden State Warriors and the San Jose Mayor’s Office named Chad as their 2015 Champion in the Community. Chad is a Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum, a graduate of Leadership San Jose, a two-time Most Valuable Player in the international sport power soccer, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business Psychology at Palo Alto University.
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Self Help Center/Family Law Facilitator's Office SCC Superior Court
Feb. 27, 2018
Fariba R, Soroosh Fariba is the Supervising Attorney at Santa Clara County Superior Court's Self Help Center and Family Law Facilitator's Office, where she has worked for almost 20 years. Prior to that, she was in private practice litigating and mediating family law and probate guardianship matters. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law and was admitted to California Bar in 1993. Fariba has dedicated her career to access to justice, conflict resolution and violence prevention. She has been a Commissioner on Santa Clara County's Domestic Violence Council since 2004 advising the Board of Supervisors on domestic violence prevention and education issues. She has also either written or contributed to drafting 9 family law and violence prevention bills that have been signed into law. She has volunteered as a community issues mediator at Santa Clara County Office of Human Relations since 1995. She has also volunteers for Los Gatos Monte Sereno Police Department as a victim services advocate since 2011. Fariba has loved living in Los Gatos since 1998 and is the proud parent of three successful adult children who went through the Los Gatos school system.
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Blood Sugar Balance Strategies
Mar. 06, 2018
Do you have brain fog, mood swings, weight issues, fatigue, constipation, sugar/food cravings, insomnia, diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol? Your symptoms are real and there are natural strategies for you! Dr. Sharon Dubner, D.C. & Dr. Allen Dubner, D.C. have helped many people normalize their blood sugar levels naturally so that their MD has taken them off medications. Learn how sugar balance is affecting your health problems, how to eat sweet and still be healthy, breaking the sugar-stress connection, key sugar strategies to lose weight and have abundant energy and prevent disease, and breakthrough easy natural self-help techniques. In addition to practicing at their Health and Wellness Center in San Jose CA, for over 30 years, Dr. Allen Dubner, D.C. and Dr. Sharon Dubner, D.C. have been providing natural health strategies lectures throughout Santa Clara County at corporations such as Sony Corporation and Lockheed Martin Corporation, Universities and colleges, school districts and community centers and groups. They have given over 900 of these public self-help wellness/lifestyle strategies talks.
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Mar. 06, 2018 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Saint Luke's Pantry is an outreach program hosted by Saint Luke's Episcopal Church to serve the homeless in the Los Gatos area. The pantry is open in our Parish Hall at 10:00am on Tuesday mornings to provide food, companionship and clothing to those who need it most. Our club prepares and serves the food as well as offers companionship to those in need. |
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Newspaper Columns
Mar. 13, 2018
Scott Herhold retired from the Mercury News last November after 40 years with the newspaper. He covered a parade of beats -- the Peninsula, county government, general assignment, redevelopment and venture capital. He did stints as an assistant city editor, a magazine writer, a political gossip columnist and a tech stocks writer. For his last 14 years, he served as the paper's metro columnist, covering politics, crime, history and figures in the news.
Scott is a graduate of Yale, where he found his calling by covering cross-country for the Yale Daily News. He has four grown children and three grandchildren. He and his wife, Sarah Janigian, live in San Jose's Hanchett Park neighborhood. In retirement, he hopes to be tour guide and freelance writer.
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Mar. 14, 2018 - Mar. 16, 2018
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The Team's Business Plan
Mar. 20, 2018
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Interact Club Auction
Mar. 27, 2018
Our club sponsors an Interact club at the Los Gatos High School. The club organization is very similar to a Rotary club and Interact activities are similar to what we do - participate in community service projects, complete projects of their own, schedule social events, and conduct fund raising events. A very important fund raiser for the Interact club is the annual auction they conduct at one of our Tuesday lunches. A team of 5/6 Interactors bring multiple items to the lunch and auction them off to our members. All of the items on offer have been made by the students and include baked goods, art work, ceramics, gift baskets and more. The students are the auctioneers. Our members typically make very generous bids and the proceeds of the event make a significant contribution to the Interact club's budget. Member Tina Orsi-Hartigan is our club's liaison with the Interactors and will be the emcee for this event. Tina will be assisted by LGHS teacher Tonya McQuade. |
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Mar. 28, 2018
This year one of our Rotary Club of Los Gatos grant will help pay for a classroom of children at Empire Garden School in San Jose to pick and purchase books each month that they will read, take home and keep in their personal library, which many children at this school do not have prior to this grant.
We will carpool or meet up at Empire Garden School in San Jose. March 28 and April 25
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Santa Clara County-Supervisor's Update
Apr. 10, 2018
Santa Clara County Supervisor Mike Wasserman
Described as having “a head for numbers and a heart for people,” Supervisor Mike Wasserman was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in November 2010 – and re-elected in 2014 -- after serving eight years on the Los Gatos Town Council as Mayor and Councilmember. A businessman for more than 35 years, Mike has proven that balancing budgets and maintaining high-quality public services can be done when the focus is on the people you represent. Mike currently sits on 28 committees, including chairing or co-chairing the Public Safety and Justice Committee, the Habitat Conservation Authority, and a youth task force. He coined the phrase “Real. Life. Help.” to describe the services Santa Clara County provides and he reaches 40,000 residents with this information in his monthly electronic newsletter.
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Review of Los Gatos Issues
Apr. 17, 2018
A resident of Los Gatos since 1997, Rob Rennie was elected to the Los Gatos Town Council in November, 2014. A Bay Area native, Rob spent his formative years in Washington, DC where his stepfather served as a General Counsel of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. Rob’s mother worked in the Energy Department, as an environmental mediator and also dedicated her professional career to advocating environmental causes.
Rob holds the following degrees and credentials:  Masters of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1991  Bachelor of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1989  Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and Physics (double major), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1987; College and Department honors in both majors  Certificate in Engineering Management, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA., 1998
Rob returned to the Bay Area in 1992 and spent the next 20 plus years working in the semiconductor industry. He now works to develop products that improve solar energy technology,
At the meeting, Rob will introduce the new Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Chief, Pete Decena. The following is a brief bio of Pete. After spending much of his childhood as an Army brat, Pete has lived in the Bay Area since the late 60’s. He attended San Jose State University where he graduated with a Masters in Art in 1980. Shortly thereafter, Pete began his law enforcement career at San Jose State University Police Department. In 1982, he was hired by the San Jose Police Department and spent 28 years in a variety of assignments until retiring as a Police Captain. In 2010, Pete returned to SJSU as the Chief of Police of the University Police Department. During the last eight years he has overseen a department of 35 sworn officers and 50 civilian staff, providing public safety services to a community of approximately 36,000 students, faculty and staff. He is thrilled to join the men and women of the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department to provide the professional policing and high degree of customer service the communities have come to expect and deserve. Pete currently lives in San Jose with his wife, Connie and their two children, Nathan and Natalie. |
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Sunday April 29 Race Preparation
Apr. 24, 2018
This will be a coordination meeting for the Sunday, April 29, 2018, Los Gatos Rotary Great Race. Mike Norcia and Todd Taylor will give an overview of this year's race and then the various teams (course monitors, registration team, etc) will get together and make sure all team members understand what has to be done to make this annual event the great success it has always been. This event requires an all-hands-on-deck turn-out with all club members expected to pitch in. If you cannot be there on race day, let Mike Norcia know. There are a lot of activities in the days leading up to the race and Mike will be happy to have you cover some of these. |
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Apr. 25, 2018
This year one of our Rotary Club of Los Gatos grant will help pay for a classroom of children at Empire Garden School in San Jose to pick and purchase books each month that they will read, take home and keep in their personal library, which many children at this school do not have prior to this grant.
We will carpool or meet up at Empire Garden School in San Jose. March 28 and April 25
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Apr. 29, 2018
It all started back in 1978 when Bill Glennon, then the mayor of Saratoga, suggested a race--a "Great Race"--between the neighboring communities - Los Gatos, Monte Sereno and Saratoga. Rotary Club of Los Gatos took over the race over 30 years ago. Over 1,000 families and athletes come out to participate in this fun run/walk.
Proceeds from this fundraiser benefit our youth by providing high school students with college scholarship. As well as benefit local and international charities Rotary supports.
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Los Gatos High School Choir Recital
May 01, 2018
The award-winning Los Gatos High School choir will sing for us. The program will involve a selection of favorite choral pieces. The choir has visited with us several times in the past and their performances have always been very well received. The choir leader, Ms. Maricel Riley, provided the following information about the choir.
The Los Gatos High School Choral Program has grown 300% over the last 6 years. We currently have 3 choir class: A Concert Choir and 2 classes of Chamber Singers. All groups perform 3 concerts, participate in 2 to 3 festivals/competitions and performs in several community events in the area every year. In 2016, the choir got First Place and a Gold Award at the World Heritage Festival in Anaheim which qualified the choir to perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York for the Festival of Golds. The choirs have also performed with the popular band “The Foreigners” at the Mountain Winery for 3 consecutive years beginning in 2012. In 2014, the Los Gatos High School Choir went to England for their international performance tour and performed at the Southwark Cathedral and Westminster Concert Hall in London, Yorkminster Cathedral in York and the Royal Hall in Harrogate as part of the Harrogate International Music Festival. The choir just recently came back from their international performance tour in Spain. The choir performed at the beautiful Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Conservatorio de Jose Iturbi in Valencia and Iglesia de San Jose in Madrid. |
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Some Golden Oldies
May 08, 2018
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Innovations Occurring at LGHS
May 15, 2018
Ms. Kristina Grasty is the Principal at Los Gatos High School. The focus of her presentation to us will be to describe innovations that have been happening at the school. This will include a summary of curricula innovations that they are proud of. Ms. Grasty's presentation will also include slides of the new buildings on the campus. |
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May 18, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Family BBQ on Friday, May 18 at Oak Meadow Park from 5pm to 8pm.The tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for ages 6 to 12 and free for ages 5 and under.
The Club will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, sodas and water.
When you buy your tickets you will be asked to sign up for your potluck preference: appetizer, side/salad or dessert.
You will need to bring your own wine and beer. Bring your spouses, significant others, children and grandchildren. We will once again be able to ride the train and merry-go-round. |
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Fisher Middle School Music Recital
May 22, 2018
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Clean Energy From Ethanol
May 29, 2018
Tom Quinn has had a long career as an entrepreneur. He recently launched an alternative energy company E-Fuel Corporation.The company makes generators powered by different types of ethanol. This is a bio-fuel that the company says burns cleaner than diesel and allows users to make their own fuel. E-Fuel has established a foothold in the agricultural sector, selling to farmers and growers wanting an alternative generator that can use ethanol fuel cheaply manufactured using farm waste. In January 2018, the company introduced a new generator aimed at home use. Tom says this product allows homeowners to go completely off-grid. Tom's presentation will describe the E-Fuel story and cover the benefits of using ethanol for power generation. |
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Jun. 03, 2018 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Bay Area Rotary Community Service DaySunday June 3: 8am - noon
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Awarding of the 2018 Scholarships
Jun. 05, 2018
The meeting will involve awarding scholarships to 20 high school seniors. Each recipient will tell us a little about themselves and their hopes for the future.
The Rotary Club of Los Gatos has a Scholarship Fund which currently has a corpus in excess of $1 million. Fund income is used to provide typically 20 scholarships a year to high school seniors from the Los Gatos and Leigh schools. Each year the Club awards scholarships totaling approximately $34,000. The Fund was established in 1947 and every year one third of the net proceeds from the Great Race goes directly into this fund.
Scholarship recipients are selected by the club's Scholarship Committee. The applicants are evaluated using the following factors:
- Recommendations from school counselors
- All applicants are interviewed
- GPA
- Participation in school activities - especially if they are a member of the Interact club
- Financial need
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