Greeting/Ring Bell (Cathy)

Hello everyone! Welcome to our meeting of the Mountain View Rotary Club. This year's International Rotary Theme is "Unite for Good." Our local club theme this year is "Our Rotary Family Cares."  

 

Pledge of Allegiance Roger

 

 

Thought for the Day Paul had a thought about his trip to New Zealand and joined the President’s Club

 

Introduction of Guests Fred – no guests

 

 

Our Mountain View Club continues to support Polio Plus with weekly donations of $25 to honor our Speaker, and we received an acknowledgment of our efforts last week from the Rotary International Foundation during District’s 5170 Avenues of Service event last Thursday in Oakland.  Again, World Polio Day is October 24^th and with Rotary’s partnership with the Gates Foundation, Rotary Clubs world-wide are hoping to raise $450 million to eradicate polio in the world.

 

President’s Club – All are welcome to join!

 

Cathy Bonus Bucks – Bruce distributed Cathy Bonus Bucks to Sanjay, Scott, Angela, Heather, Fred and Paul

      Special thanks to Sanjay for helping with the Senior Care Project along w/ Scott.

 

 

Fridays at 9:30 am – Rotary Pickleball, Rengstorff Park

Wednesday at 5:30 – Art and Wine Volunteer Appreciation Party at Shoreline Amphitheater

Friday, November 14 at 5:30 pm – MVPSF Gala at the Ameswell Hotel.  Tori has a table.

Saturday, November 15 at 9:00am to 11:00am – Club’s Stevens Creek Trail cleanup, meet at Whisman Park at 310 Easy Street

Sunday, November 23 at 9:00 am –Cops and Gobblers = Service opportunity

Friday, December 19 at 5:00 pm – Rotary Holiday Party at Don Giovanni’s

February 7 – Confirmed date for the Crab Feed

                                                                           

Tuesday, December 2 at 5:00pm dinner and 7:30pm Holiday Train of Lights = Join District 5170 Leadership Dinner and the Holiday Train of Lights on the beautiful Niles Canyon Railway! Santa is expected to be aboard for pictures too! (See Clipboard)

Thursday – work project with Bruce

 

Program –  Bruce will introduce our speaker today, Laura Fay from Los Altos Rotary who will speak about Environmental Advocacy and the action their club is taking.  She had an amusing story of kayaking with Bruce B. who wanted an ice cream and had her, her husband and Suzanne kayak 12 miles to get there.

 

 

Laura described some of the activities Los Altos Rotary is doing with their Climate Action Committee whose mission is education about environmental issues.  She said less than 5 % of plastic gets recycled most of it plastic #1 PETE like water bottles.  Some of the activities they are doing include:

 

 

 

 

Speaker Appreciation (Bruce)                                      

           

Next Meeting – Club Social next Tuesday, October 28^th at 5:00 – Agave 194 Castro